Today in history

Today is Saturday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2001. There are 359 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Jan. 6, 1412, according to tradition, Joan of Arc was born in Domremy.

On this date:

In 1540, England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)

In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.

In 1838, Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.

In 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state.

In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y. at age 60.

In 1941, President Roosevelt delivered his ''Four Freedoms'' speech outlining four goals: freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; and freedom from fear.

In 1942, the Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrived in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane.

In 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y.

In 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse V, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.

In 1993, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev died in Paris at age 54; jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died in Englewood, N.J., at age 75.

Ten years ago: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television address, told his country to prepare for a long war against what he called ''tyranny represented by the United States.'' Federal regulators seized banks owned by Bank of New England Corp. in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine.